Halkidiki: Wolf roams through villages and beach bars among sunbeds – Watch video

An cognition to find and seizure the wolf wandering done settlements successful Neos Marmaras, Halkidiki, spreading fearfulness among residents and tourists—after attacking a 5-year-old kid connected a section formation past Friday (12/9)—is being prepared by the Municipality of Sithonia successful practice with the applicable authorities.

As Sithonia’s lawman mayor, Thanasis Mallinis, told protothema.gr, the wolf was spotted past nighttime (15/9) successful the country betwixt Neos Marmaras and the Porto Carras hotel. In the video obtained by protothema.gr, the wolf is seen walking on the roadworthy portion being filmed by radical wrong a passing car.

Residents and tourists person been unsettled by the wolf’s beingness and movements. The Municipality, Mallinis said, advises them to stay calm and to debar walking their dogs unless kept connected a leash.

Wolf among sunbeds successful Halkidiki
The wolf’s appearances person been recorded some wrong the colony and connected the beach, wherever it was seen roaming among the sunbeds of section formation bars. Against this backdrop, the Municipality of Sithonia has called connected Callisto, the Hellenic Organization for the Environment and Climate Change (OFYPEKA), the Forestry Service, and the Police to conscionable contiguous astatine 6 p.m. successful the aforesaid area—between Neos Marmaras and Porto Carras—where the wolf was spotted past night, to way it down and trap it.

“The Municipality has called successful Callisto, OFYPEKA, the Forestry Service, and the Police, and astatine 6 this evening we volition each conscionable astatine the tract wherever the wolf was seen yesterday to spot what precisely we tin bash to drawback it,” Mallinis said. He added that, according to Callisto, the wolf should beryllium trapped and euthanized since it attacked a human.

Wolf successful Halkidiki
The onslaught connected the 5-year-old kid connected a Neos Marmaras formation has caused wide concern. As Mallinis noted, “It is the archetypal clip successful Greece that a wolf onslaught connected a quality has been recorded. Until now, we lone had wolf attacks connected animals.”

“It is antithetic for a wolf to rotation successful a populated area, and this is the lone clip successful Greece we’ve had a wolf onslaught connected a human—such an incidental has ne'er been recorded before. There person been wolf attacks connected animals successful Greece, but ne'er connected a human,” helium emphasized.

According to Callisto’s communications officer, Iasonas Bantios, the wolf is young and has been searching for nutrient wrong settlements. He stressed that it “shows a problematic familiarity” with humans and quality environments that does not align with emblematic wolf behavior.